Blackpool cannabis farmer faces Vietnam deportation for role in £350k grow
Truong Le, 35, has been jailed for two years and four months for his role in cultivating a £345,000 cannabis grow in the resort. Preston Crown Court heard officers from Lancashire Constabulary raided the three floor cannabis factory on February 10 this year and found Le hiding behind an air vent.
The factory, in Dickson Road, was kitted out with sophisticated growing equipment, lights and fans and had plants growing in seven separate rooms. Officers counted 880 plants in total, at various stages of growth.The court hear the plants had a potential yield of between £178,000 and £356,400. Le was searched and found with a wallet which contained £250 cash and a train ticket from London to Birmingham.
He pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis on the basis he had worked as a gardener and did not have overall responsibility for the crop. The court heard Le, of no fixed address, has been in the UK for seven years and has been arrested in three occasions in connection with the production of cannabis. Recorder Michelle Brown, sentencing, said: "You gave a summary which was that you were taken to the property and told you were being provided with a job. When you saw the plants you wanted to leave but you were told you weren't allowed and you would be killed if you did. You said you had been there a few days and played a very limited role."
Recorder Brown sentenced Le to two years and four months, and said ordinarily he would serve half his sentence in custody and the second half on licence. However as he will be deported at the end of his sentence he will remain in custody until he is removed from the country.
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